Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Keynes: The Essential Economist Excerpt

A biography on an economist…
JKG: He wasn’t only an economist. This book, Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes by Davenport-Hines. Shows his many sides.

JFK: The seven lives?

JKG: Altruist, boy prodigy, public man, official, lover, connoisseur and envoy.

JFK: He did a lot of things then?

JKG: And did them well. He was an economist, of course, but he was also a negotiator, a politician, a successful investor, an art collector, supported the drama and music, and even kept pigs.

JFK: A universal man, a renaissance man, a polymath.
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Keynes was a member of the Bloomsbury group: mainly arts and humanities figures, with links to Cambridge, including novelist E.M. Forster, biographer Lytton Strachey, art critic Clive Bell, painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, writer Leonard Woolf, and novelist Virginia Woolf.

"I think that capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system." John Maynard Keynes: The End of Laissez-faire (1926).


Choose a famous person. Find a quotation they spoke or wrote which encapsulates their philosophy. Add their name and their quote to the comments.
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29 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 17, 2015 at 7:40 AM

    John Fitzgerald Kennedy said in his Inaugural Address, 20th January 1961, "My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

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  2. AnonymousJune 17, 2015 at 7:49 AM

    “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Martin Luther King. August 28, 1963. Speech at Lincoln Memorial.

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  3. no namec seiJune 17, 2015 at 1:51 PM

    Elon Msuk said
    My mentality is that of samurai
    I would rather commit seppuku than fail
    35

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  4. aJune 17, 2015 at 1:55 PM

    Jordan Belfort said "If you want to be rich, you have to program your mind to be rich" 35

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  5. tetsukoJune 17, 2015 at 2:46 PM

    Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

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  6. tetsukoJune 17, 2015 at 2:46 PM

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  7. UnknownJune 17, 2015 at 2:48 PM

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  8. AnonymousJune 17, 2015 at 2:50 PM

    I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
    Abraham Lincoin
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  9. AnonymousJune 17, 2015 at 4:29 PM

    The most difficult one accepts a new idea in this world, but it's to forget an old idea.
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  10. AnonymousJune 17, 2015 at 6:34 PM


    "It always seems impossible until it’s done."
    Nelson Mandela
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  11. UnknownJune 17, 2015 at 7:35 PM

    "You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down."
    Charlie Chaplin
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  12. AnonymousJune 17, 2015 at 7:59 PM

    Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.

    Warren Buffett
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  13. 久原洋佑June 17, 2015 at 8:00 PM

    Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.

    Warren Buffett
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  14. UnknownJune 17, 2015 at 8:23 PM

    Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

    Walt Disney
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  15. UnknownJune 17, 2015 at 8:27 PM

    What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
    Mother Teresa
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  16. AnonymousJune 17, 2015 at 8:33 PM

    Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
    Mahatma Gandhi

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  17. AnonymousJune 17, 2015 at 9:52 PM

    Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
    Albert Einstein

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  18. AnonymousJune 17, 2015 at 10:06 PM

    The best way to predict your future is to create it.
    peter drucker
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  19. AnonymousJune 17, 2015 at 10:07 PM

    The charge is the time of the absolute needs, but it would be grandchild's charge the time of the relative needs.
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  20. AnonymousJune 17, 2015 at 10:27 PM

    Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
    Thomas A. Edison
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  21. UnknownJune 17, 2015 at 10:59 PM

    Maozedong said"politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed"

    By 35

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  22. AnonymousJune 17, 2015 at 11:01 PM

    Life is not fair; get used to it
    Bill Gates
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  23. AnonymousJune 17, 2015 at 11:09 PM

    If you can dream it, you can do it.

    Walt Disney
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  24. 35June 18, 2015 at 12:33 AM

    GENIUS is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.

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  25. UnknownJune 18, 2015 at 10:14 AM

    Conan doyle

    when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

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  26. UnknownJune 18, 2015 at 10:38 AM

    Hirofumi Uzawa

    Economy isn't jsut what creates wealth.

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  27. UnknownJune 18, 2015 at 2:40 PM

    “The first was just a dream and unfounded confidence. Everything started from there. ” Masayoshi Son

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  28. UnknownJune 18, 2015 at 2:53 PM


    Nelson Mandela Quotes

    I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
    kensei

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  29. UnknownJune 18, 2015 at 2:59 PM

    Let black and white man become brother, South Africa can prosper development.
    Nelson Mandela
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